COMMENT: After initial denial, the British populist/fascist group has admitted links to Anders Breivik, the Norway Nazi killer.
Aside from the superficial element of alarm–overt fascists gaining strength and publicity in a time of severe economic crisis and social dislocation–the growth and activities of groups like the EDL and Sweden Democrats actually work to strengthen the Muslim Brotherhood’s Islamofascist organization.
(In addition to the vast number of programs detailing the Muslim Brotherhood’s activities, the Global Muslim Brotherhood Report feeds at the bottom of the front page of this site.)
Whenever the Brotherhood can present itself as the victims of fascists like the EDL, Sweden Democrats, Breivik and their ilk, it is a huge ideological and tactical victory for them, furthering their insidious Islamofascist agenda.
Too bad that those who gravitate to the EDL, SD’s etc. are too Goddamn stupid and/or venal and/or insane to figure this out.
“UK Group Admits Links with Norway Killer” [PTI]; Daily News and Analysis; 7/26/2011.
EXCERPT: After initial denial, the far-right English Defence League (EDL) has admitted that Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik had links to the group.
Breivik reportedly met leaders of the EDL in March last year when he came to London for the visit of Geert Wilders, the Dutch right-wing politician.
Daryl Hobson, who organises EDL demonstrations, said Breivik had met members of the group.
Hobson said in an online posting: “He had about 150 EDL on his list ... bar one or two doubt the rest of us ever met him, altho [sic] he did come over for one of our demo [sic] in 2010 ... but what he did was wrong. RIP to all who died as a result of his actions.”
Another senior member of the EDL said Breivik had been in regular contact with its members via Facebook, and had a “hypnotic” effect on them, the Daily Telegraph reported today.
Scotland Yard was investigating Breivik’s claims that he began his deadly “crusade” after being recruited to a secret society in London, and that he was guided by an English “mentor.” . . .
Let’s not forget that the Norway murderer is a Christian terrorist. The Western equivalents to the Muslim Brotherhood are usually Christofascist in the same way that the MB is Islamofascist. It seems the world is stuck with choosing either Christofascism or Islamofascism.
EDL profits from London riots:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024707/UK-riots-2011-Met-Polices-Tim-Godwin-warns-EDL-hijack-vigilante-patrols.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Right-wing extremists hijacking the vigilante patrols protecting against looters, warn police
– EDL and BNP singled out as extremist groups who may try to inflame racial tension
– Residents claim EDL involved in organising vigilantes there on Tuesday nightBritain’s most senior police officer yesterday warned that Right-wing extremists could ‘hijack’ vigilante patrols protecting against looters.
Acting Metropolitan Police Commissioner Tim Godwin singled out the English Defence League and the British National Party as two organisations who might exploit the situation.
His warning comes amid intelligence that the EDL has successfully infiltrated vigilante groups in Enfield, North London – scene of some of the worst mindless violence and criminality on Sunday night – and Eltham in South East London.
Police warn the potential for this to ‘fuel the flames’ of an already fraught situation by adding a ‘violent racial element’ is ‘enormous and worrying.’
Residents claimed some English Defence League supporters were involved in organising vigilante patrols of young white men under the name Enfield Defence League on Tuesday night.
They split into three 30-strong groups in contact by mobile telephone and BlackBerry to patrol the streets.
Dave take a look at this when you get a chance:
Norwegian Police Conducted Drill for ‘Practically Identical Scenario’ Right Before Utoya Attack
http://cryptogon.com/?p=24540
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/01/britons-links-to-anders-breivik-utoya
More Britons face questions over links to Utøya killer Anders Breivik
Names emerged from interviews with Breivik and English anti-Muslim blogger Paul Ray, say Norwegian police
Norwegian police say they are to question several British citizens in their search for potential accomplices of mass killer Anders Behring Breivik.
Officers in Oslo said the names of individuals and several far-right groups emerged from questioning of British anti-Muslim blogger Paul Ray as well as further interviews with Breivik.
Police press officer Roar Hanssen said: “We have some names and also some groups we are investigating. They came from Paul Ray, and also from Breivik and also from other things we have been investigating.”
Breivik, 32, admitted killing 77 people last month when he detonated a truck bomb outside government offices in Oslo, and then went on a shooting spree at a youth camp at Utøya, 25 miles away.
He was questioned again on Wednesday and prosecutor Paal-Fredrik Hjort Kraby said officers focused on Breivik’s manifesto, his alleged links to a group called the Knights Templar and potential ties to the UK.
Hanssen said: “A lot of people are mentioned in Breivik’s manifesto and we, of course, want to speak to them and there are some links to the UK. I don’t know if there are specific areas they are from but there are some rightwing groups.”
Ray was interviewed last week after claims he may have been the “mentor” mentioned by Breivik in his “manifesto”, posted online shortly before he carried out the killings on 22 July.
Ray, who wrote his blog under the name Lionheart, has said it appeared Breivik drew inspiration from some of his ideas and writings, but he has repeatedly denied any link, saying he never met Breivik and was horrified by the killings. He said he travelled to Norway to “clear his name”.
Breivik wrote that he attended the founding meeting of the Knights Templar Europe “military order” in London in 2002 where he met a “mentor” who used the pseudonym Richard, after Richard the Lionheart. He signed the 1,500-page document with an anglicised version of his name and datelined it London 2011.
Breivik also repeatedly praised the English Defence League, saying he had 600 EDL supporters as Facebook friends and had spoken with members and leaders. The EDL has condemned the killings and has denied any official contact with Breivik, insisting it is a peaceful, non-racist organisation opposed to extremism.
Kraby said Norwegian police did not have evidence that Breivik had accomplices, but “did not rule out the possibility.”
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As the trial of Anders Breivik proceeds it’s becoming clear that the most important thing to Breivik is that he is not viewed as ‘insane’. So his attorney invited other people on the stand that share Breivik’s views in order to establish that other people share his views too and therefore he’s not insane. It apparently didn’t occur to the defense that inviting other people to profess a shared worldview with Breivik in order to establish his sanity doesn’t work when those other people happen to be lunatics:
Yes you do...
One of the organization disadvantages, however, is that convincing the populace to empower blatant power-mongers generally requires a far-right movement to cater to its locale’s particular collective insanities. As a consequence, different far-right movements are often forced to hide the fact that they all share the same hidden long-term goal of transforming a society into some sort disempowered play-thing of the oligarchs. So, instead of a unified front, you get a collection of faux-fronts that are so overtly crazy that the different far-right movements sometimes seem like they don’t want to be seen in public with each other. It’s a situation Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders has been struggling to overcome:
But sometimes, when the mainstream parties have already collectively embraced far-right policies, the far-right’s faux-populism really gets to shine! All they have to do in that situation is seem just a little less crazy than the mainstream:
So will the austerity-weary proles come to embrace the European far-right as austerity continues to wear down public confidence in traditional parties? We’ll see. But in the mean time, it looks like someone is buying what Geert’s selling.
LOL! I managed to leave out the leading paragraph of the above 1984-ish comment. Who needs Thought Police when you have sloppy commentary!
So yeah, as I was planning on saying, one of the organizational advantages often held by the various far-right movements around the globe is that, while the particular ideologies might vary, the underlying goal is often the same one articulated in 1984: “The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power”. This can be a pretty powerful driving force as long as the proles never figure out that they’re part of the larger ‘prole’ populace and buy whatever garbage is being fed to them as an explanation for why things are the way they are.
One of the organization disadvantages, however, ....etc.
Avoiding double plus ungood typos also helps.